Why alcohol affects women more than men | BBC

More and more women are addicted to booze – but their needs have largely been ignored by the medical establishment.

It’s more complicated than mere body size

It used to be that men were the outsized alcohol drinkers in Western society – perhaps best depicted in popular culture by Don Draper’s Mad Men cronies, who swilled from office stashes of brown liquor, knocked back three-martini lunches and imbibed Old Fashioneds in an after-work pub culture where few women dared tread.